Microsoft Surface Laptop

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The Surface Laptop isn’t cheap, but given the premium experience, design and battery life it offers it’s relatively good value. If you want a Windows laptop and don’t want it to be a tablet too, the Surface Laptop is brilliant – if you can put up without having USB-C.

After upgrading, my Surface Laptop hums like a near-perfect Windows machine. The coming shift to fancy USB-C devices might require me to get a bunch of dongles down the line, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take. In the meantime, I don’t need a backpack full of ancillary junk to do everything, and, in a sea of MacBook Pros at Starbucks, I stand out with an eye-catching laptop. And it’s a Windows machine. Crazy.

The Surface Laptop is a solid, reliable machine that looks great and works generally extremely well. I have a few reservations surrounding its lack of ports for peripherals, the good-but-not-amazing speakers and the longevity of the Alcantara, but it’s a good all-rounder that’s is unlikely to let you down. Oh, and if you do buy it, upgrade to Windows 10 Pro immediately.

All screen and no substance. The new Surface Laptop sounds and looks more special than it really is. While the unique 3:2 touchscreen is bright, crisp, and colorful for graphic artists, almost everything else fails to...

Fair play to Microsoft, the Surface Laptop might sound like a mess on paper but in the cold light of day it's a unique joy to behold.From its classy carpeted aesthetic to its new Windows 10 S operating system, there's a lot that's different about this...

The Surface Laptop is Microsoft’s most traditional device yet, but that’s exactly what makes it appealing. With a fetching, minimalist design and some of the best battery life on the market, it’s the ideal Surface for anyone who doesn’t want a hybrid tablet.

This beautiful ultrabook is probably not going to shift the categories as Microsoft has claimed, sitting as it does with a luxury tag yet aimed at university students on a budget. Taken on its own, however, the Surface Laptop is a stylish, powerful device that will turn plenty of heads in the classroom or lecture hall.

Finally, the conceptual problem is that the Surface Laptop has no "killer feature." That's a change from prior Surface devices that created a new category, or solved a unique problem. Surface Laptop idoesn't change the game. It's just a really, really nice Windows laptop. And that's perfectly fine.

As a first stab at a proper lightweight notebook, the Surface Studio is a capable and accomplished offering. It's held back slightly by the omission of USB-C connectivity and the decision to ship it with Windows 10 S, but it's otherwise an absolutely superb device.

I feel like I always start a Surface review the same way, so here goes: I've always wanted Microsoft to build a laptop. A couple of years ago, Microsoft nearly did that with the Surface Book but it wasn't enough.The Surface Book was top heavy, chunky,...